New Beer Distributors, NY 50cl ($10): Pours black with brown head that is quite large. Aroma is coffee, loads of hops, dark chocolate, but just a little, and pine. Taste is quite bitter, even more so than is normal Beer Geek (or at least as well as I can remember). Mouthfeel is pretty velvety. Sustained aftertaste. Plenty of coffee is present. Maybe too much, I suppose. Very little sweetness. Pretty good.

pours very dark brown, thinish tan head. ample carbonation, but not overdone. pretty smooth feel. fairly agressive on the hop aroma, and the bitterness in the flavor, though the coffee and chocolate flavors and aromas still come thorugh quite nicely. not as good as the original BGB, but pretty dang good as an alternate."

Bottle, 500ml. A pitch black beer with a big frothy brown head. Aroma is of dried fruits, coffee, nuts, roasted malt and alcohol. Surprisingly for an IPA there is no grapefruit in the aroma. Taste is bitter with some carbonation and astringency. It doesn’t have a strong hop character. Aftertaste reminds me of coffee. This is a good beer, but not what I expected. I thought it was going to be more acidic with a strong aroma of grapefruit, almost like an orange juice for breakfast.

Bottle, 500ml. Almost opaque black with a frothy brown head. Aroma is of roasted malt. coffee and dried fruits, not the hoppiness I was expecting. Robust yet smooth and creamy. Tremendous dark malt character, with a heavy bitter roasted coffee and anis feel at the finish. Very rich and warming.

Bottle. Pour is black with light head. The aroma is a light malt with very light hints of hops. The taste is big malt, no mistaking the oatmeal stout side. Finishes with the bitterness of hops.
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